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aby Jun 10th, 2007 04:10 AM

Blood Diamonds OUT "blood" Cocoa in
 
According to GLOBAL WITNESS: Ivory Coast (Cote d'ivoire)whose COCOA crops $1.4bn revenues, accounted for about 40 per cent of global production, help finance civil war ...

aby. a chocoholic

joeyi Jun 10th, 2007 04:27 AM

from another chocoholic try to buy "fair traded" chocolate.


aby Jun 10th, 2007 04:30 AM

i easily banned all Rhino-horn products...

Diamonds? - never had & never will

but Chocolate???
who should i ban / put pressure on /scorn ?
Leonidas? Godiva? or maybe Lindt? Nestle or Cadbury ? (i let u deal with Hershey's not my cup o' chocolate)

Nyamera Jun 10th, 2007 04:41 AM

They use child slave labour as well.

joeyi Jun 10th, 2007 05:17 AM

Not sure where you are located but if you go to your local health food or natural food store they should sell fair trade chocolate, same goes for coffee too. or google fair trade chocolate and you will find a lot of on line retailers. it won't be Hersey's that for sure.

MoiraS Jun 10th, 2007 06:39 AM

Hi,

Green and Black's chocolate is fair trade and organic and yummy too! I love their Maya Orange...

Moira

MoiraS Jun 10th, 2007 06:39 AM

PS Hershey's is not chocolate, but a chocolate-like substance in the opinion of this chocoholic!

Moira


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